When Alen Hanson burst onto to the Giants, he was all doubles and dingers. It feels redundant at this point to say this, but the Giants didn’t get any breakout performances from their bench players last year. To have a previously bad player come over and go Chris Taylor all over the joint was a welcome surprise.
Back in May, when I wrote about the luckiest and unluckiest Giants hitters, I said this about Hanson:
On my bedroom wall there hangs a X-Files poster reading, “I want to believe,” but instead of a UFO, it’s Alen Hanson ripping doubles and swatting dingers.